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Show IN THE B SECTION Classifieds B-15 Crossword B-4 Field Notes B-7 Restaurant Guide B-9 Scene & Heard B-ll Sports B-7 TV Listings B-14 Some. The Park Record. www.newschoice.com SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1998 SCENE EDITOR: Melissa O'Brien 649-9014 ext. 1 04 a i Ask Martha BY MARTHA STEWART 5 " 6 jtt" - t .. ------ t... PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BAKER. What are garden troughs? Stone troughs, impossibly heavy and rustically beautiful, have been used to house charming miniature landscapes for a century ever since the English decided to create gardens in the containers they used for watering and feeding farm animals ani-mals These troughs, now antiques, are hard to come by. But with a simple mixture of inexpensive ingredients found at the garden center and hardware hard-ware store, you can make a lightweight light-weight version that looks like the real thing. Alpines, small plants native to alpine regions, and other rock-garden favorites are traditional in " troughs; two classics include dwarf artemesia, which reaches a height of six to eight inches and has exquisite silver leaves; and draba, with yellow or white flowers and rosette-like leaves. (There are dozens of alpine and rock-garden plants; look for them at your local nursery or consult a good catalog.) But almost any plants of small stature will do well in a trough. Creeping thyme, miniature hostas and phlox, succulents and cacti, and annuals and small bulbs are all lovely. love-ly. (Just make sure, when combining plants, that they all like the same conditions.) And a trough near the back door may just be the perfect place for an herb garden or delicious salad greens. Tools and supplies Two cardboard boxes, one smaller small-er than the other, to serve as molds for the trough (the lightweight concrete con-crete mixture will fill the space between the two boxes) Horticultural perlite Peat moss Portland cement Three-quarter-inch-mesh chicken wire Wooden dowels Drop cloth Mason's trowel Mask to wear over your nose and mouth (to keep from breathing in hazardous cement dust) Work gloves Casting a trough Rough edges and slight irregularities irregulari-ties in shape make these natural-looking natural-looking containers appear at home in the garden, so don't worry about making your trough perfect. Assembling the mold and pouring the mixture will take just a couple of hours. The trough needs at least a day to cure before the mold is removed. I. Wearing the mask and work Please see Martha, B-4 5 Request For Proposal to do Water and Road Studies in the Pine Meadow Ranch Area Pine Meadow Special Service District is currently accepting proposals for a General Engineering Study to be made on the existing infrastructure of roads and water. A Project Orientation meeting will be held on June 9, 1998 at 4:30 p.m. at the Snyderville Basin Sewer Improvement District building, located at 2800 Homestead Road, Park City, Utah. Information packets will be available. Proposals will be accepted at the Summit County Treasurer's Office, located at 60 North Main Street, Coalville, Utah until 5:00 p.m., June 22, 1998. The proposals will be reviewed at the regular meeting of the Pine Meadow Special Service District Advisory Board on Tuesday, June 23, 1998 held at the Salt Lake County Complex, 2001 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, in room N4010. Interested parties may contact Robert Murdock, P.E., District Engineer at (801)487-0258. National orchestra to serenade Students treated to special performance by Kathleen Shorr RECORD GUEST WRITER On May 29th The Eccles Center will be filled with the sounds of string instruments instru-ments played by worldclass wonderkind, all under the age of 30. The National Orchestra Association is made up of 22 young musicians drawn from the finest music schools all over the world. The NOA is coming to Park City with a program of serenades by Mozart, Victor Herbert and Turina, a Spanish composer., as well as Grieg's Holberg Suite. According to NOA vice chairman and executive director, Patricia Maazel, "the word "serenade" comes from the Latin "serenos" which means clear, bright and fair. Serenades have to do with lightness light-ness and joy. They're very appropriate to this time of year." If the NOA ever had to put out a want ad it might look something like this: "Wanted: Superb musicians with excellent technique, musicianship and sight-reading ability. Regular rehearsals and performances perform-ances under the baton of several world-famous world-famous conductors. Total tuition: $1 per year." Needless to say, prospective members from all parts of the world show up in New York City every September to audition. audi-tion. Since 1970 all orchestra members have received fellowship grants for the year and the whopping $1 per year tuition continues to pay for a world class education in playing music with a symphony sym-phony orchestra. Up until 1930 if you were a talented young musician in this country you had to go to Europe to study. To remedy this, the NOA was formed in that year by a group of music lovers to train young American musicians to play in symphony orchestras. Today, as many as 40 percent of the musicians in the resident orchestras of New York are NOA graduates and more are scattered around the world. In 1993, with so many fine music schools educating young musicians, the NOA changed its mission and is now a performing perform-ing and educational outreach organiza Motes from the dark Brough says films have mixed impact by Rick Brough RECORD GUEST WRITER "The Big One" This light-hearted muck-raking picture could be called The Further Adventures of Michael Moore. It isn't as groundbreaking ground-breaking as his first effort, 1990's "Roger & Me;" you might even consider it a commercial com-mercial plug, since the film documents Moore's promotional tour on behalf of his book, "Downsize This" (just above "Dilbert" on the best-seller list). Moore is still focused, though, on the problem of downsizing corporations with huge profits shutting down American factories and moving off-shore or to Mexico. His fans will love this movie, which shows him detouring to commiserate with laid-off factory workers or walking into fancy glass buildings to find some executive who will accept either his Corporate Downsizer of the Year Award, or an honorary 80-cent check (representing a Mexican laborer's wages.) In Centralia, 111., workers who've been laid off (from making, ironically, Payday candy bars) throw discarded candy wrappers wrap-pers into a prop coffin. Moore accompanies accompa-nies poor mothers who have been "work- Local NO busy signals. tion. The group is in Park City thanks to NOA chairman and president, Frances J. Kennedy, who is a part-time Park City resident. The young virtuosi rehearse from October to May, give concerts in Carnegie Hall under the direction of famous guest conductors, and next week they will be here, performing under the baton of Alfredo Bonavera. A Swiss by birth, Bonavera led a double academic life, earning a Master's degree in Economics at the University of Geneva while studying for a degree in piano, composition, com-position, orchestration and conducting at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. In addition to the concert, his orchestra orches-tra will also be conducting workshops and lecture demonstrations in the Park City schools, giving a boost to local string programs. pro-grams. One workshop for older students is "A History of Strings" that begins with Sumerian harps from 2,000 B.C. and ends with rock music. Along the way is a look at Marie Antoinette's harp. According to Maazel, Marie Antoinette was "a wonderful musician and she actually met Mozart when he performed per-formed as a little boy at her family's court in Austria." An audio cassette is included as well as a musical time line, so the material can be used by music and history teachers alike. One of the lesson plans for elementary school students is "What Is A Serenade?" which also has a companion tape and links musical serenades with literary lit-erary ones by such writers as Shakespeare, Byron and Rossetti. Both of these programs were created by Maazel, who was selected by the orchestra's first conductor as a guest composer com-poser and piano soloist. She performed her own piano concerto with the orchestra orches-tra and many years later was invited to join the board. The National Orchestra Association will be in the Park City Schools May 26-28 26-28 and will offer a free student performance perform-ance at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 29 at The Eccles Center. Their concert for the general gen-eral public will be at 8:00 p.m., Friday, May 29, also at the Eccles Center. Tickets are $15 and $25 and can be reserved at the box office by calling 655-3114. fared" to Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson's office, where they offer to clean the place to demonstrate their work ethic. Moore almost alienates the Borders book chain after secretly meeting with employees in one city who are trying to unionize. And after years of being turned away by security guards and P.R. representatives, representa-tives, a corporate executive, Phil Knight of Nike, finally agrees to meet with him. (Moore told a Sundance Festival audience audi-ence that maybe Knight thought he would come across as one cool, groovy guy meeting another.) In any event, the Nike boss winds up mumbling excuses about his plants in Malaysia, and reacts with embarrassed laughter to Moore's good-natured baiting. (He's challenged to an arm-wrestling contest; if Knight loses, he's to open a factory in Flint.) Moore even takes a few pokes at his own celebrity status (showing that he flies in first-class while his crew is in coach) For the record, the film's title comes from a radio appearance, where he proposes pro-poses that, instead of a namby-pamby title like "United States of America" why not call ourselves "The Big One?" "Deep Impact" Last year, we had two movies about volcanoes. This year's Doublemint-Twin blockbusters involve asteroids hitting the earth. nil UJest Internet Services Internet Access Park City now has a stable Internet Service! All West Internet is currently serving all of Summit County. LOCAL ACCESS, no long distance fees. FREE ACCESS between 12:00am & 6:00am. TOLL FREE Customer Assistance. FAST ACCESS with 56K Flex modems with Cisco AS5200 Routers. Visit our official Internet Sign-up site: The Lab Park City 2029 Sidewinder Dr. Suite 102 Behind Avenir Travel Park City, UT 84060 (435) 649-5259 For more information call All West at 1-888-292-NET1 (ZD 0 w " ' ST" wwpZLxsi PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION Alfredo Bonavera, of the Geneva Conservatory of Music, will conduct a group of the nation's top up-and-coming musicians. But take heart. There are signs that the two disaster flicks may differ significantly signifi-cantly in tone. Judging from the trailers for "Armageddon" (due on July 1st), that film will be the Rover Boy version. On the other hand, "Deep Impact" de-emphasizes de-emphasizes the outer-space heroics and mass destruction, and becomes more a tear-jerking epic about humans faced with an overwhelming disaster. Family members mem-bers reconcile, young lovers race against the clock, and old couples look into each other's eyes for the last time. It's Spaceship Earth as the Titanic! The film is basically three stories. Tea Leoni plays a fledgling network reporter tracking down an apparent sex scandal involving a Cabinet secretary, only to find that the whispered-about "Ellie" refers to an "E.L.E." an Extinction Level Event. A New York City-sized comet is headed head-ed for Earth. And in response, an American-Russian team (including a veteran vet-eran moon pilot, played by Robert Duvall) fly off with the hope of nuking the rock into bite-sized chunks. If that doesnt work, the forward-thinking President (Morgan Freeman) has carved out a vast underground complex in the limestone hills of Missouri where a million mil-lion people can exist for two years. The lucky few will include 200,000 essential personnel scientists, farmers, talk show hosts and 800,000 others chosen by lottery. mm mrai mfm wwvm The kitchen is usually very important to prospective buyers. Your kitchen doesn't have to be new and state-of-the-art, but it should look its best. Your kitchen should be spotlessly clean and well organized while your home is on the market. The counter tops should be clean and free of clutter, and the floor should shine. Appliances should be clean and in good working order. You may want to add a few decorator touches or replace cabinets, flooring and even appliances for a small investment. Dollars spent on kitchen improvements usually pay major dividends when you sell your home. If you are planning to sell your home and need some advice in this area, I will be happy to discuss your options with you. For rock solid advice on buying or selling real estate, call Craig Reece at 801 -647-801 7 or toll free at 1-800-553-4666. Craig has been a full-time Park City resident since 1973 and a full-time real estate agent since 1978. (435) 647-8017 (435) 649-7171 (800) 553-4666 Prudential Coleman Real Eatatt Saddleview Office Park 2200 Park Avenue, Bldg B Park Cily , UT 84060 (800) 553-4666 (435) 649-7171 The Prudential and are registered service marks of The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Equal housing opportunity Each company independently owned and operated. .xihi'm - mlt t Park City The third story involves a precocious astronomy student (Elijah Wood) who was the first to photograph the comet. Unfortunately, his 15 minutes of fame is about all the time he's got to find his young lover (Leelee Sobieski) before the cataclysm strikes. Wood is earnest, but in the eyes of movie audiences he's practically practi-cally got a tag reading "Leonardo Wannabe" hanging from his collar. For the sake of her picture's credibility, director Mimi Leder is lucky to have a cast of skill and dignity. Many of them sail through their no-brainer roles on reflexes alone, and still look good witness Morgan Freeman's familiar calm and compassion, and Duvall's trademark "gosh-all" snicker as he realizes his younger shipmates regard him as an old geezer. Leoni, in a key performance, is both good and bad news. As a reporter facing both a frayed family and The Biggest Story of All Time, her sensitive rattled demeanor does a lot to put the story over. Unfortunately, she's also given some of the worst contrivances in the script by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin. You're asked to believe that Leoni, a scrawny Yank, is the daughter of sturdy European actors Maximillian Schell and Vanessa Redgrave. Schell is the gruff, wayward dad who's taken up with a trophy tro-phy wife; Redgrave is deserted and vibrantly doomed. Please see Brough, B-4 Craig Reece, CRS KITCHEN CLUTTER VE.fc.E - , fcfc.'fcfcfc'.iaw etas.-- X'lL. I J |